US attacks Yemen, Israel blockade of Gaza aid enters third week
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I'm David Enders, and this is The Take. We're coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues. The U.S. attacked Yemen. Ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel remained at an impasse. A crackdown on Palestinians in the U.S. intensified.

Today is Sunday, March 16. It is day 527 of the war in Gaza, where more than 48,453 Palestinians have been killed. The United States attacked Yemen on Saturday, killing at least 31 people. The attacks were ostensibly to prevent the country's Houthi movement from carrying out new attacks on ships in the Red Sea as a response to Israel's continued aggression in Gaza.

Al Jazeera correspondent Patty Culhane reported from Washington.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced the strikes on his social media platform in a very lengthy post, demanding that the Houthis stop the attacks immediately. It's not clear what he meant by that, since there have not been any recent attacks by the Houthis on commercial ships, although they had threatened to restart them as long as the siege of Gaza continues. More specifically, they want to send a message to Iran, the president saying they have to cut off support for the Houthis

An Israeli blockade of aid to Gaza has now entered its third week. Water also remains in short supply.

This is Al Jazeera's Tariq Abu Azoum reporting from Han Yunis on Sunday. We understand that there has been a very staggering water crisis that has started to emerge in all battered areas in the territory, including the north, where people there, every single morning, they battle in order to afford and secure enough amount of water to be used.

for different purposes here in the central area. We can see that people are securing and trying to store food because they believe that the incoming days might be very difficult and products might completely disappear from local markets. Israel have intensified attacks on all border towns and villages, including more than 13 Palestinians have been confirmed killed during the past 24 hours.

Negotiations on the implementation of the second phase of a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas continued this week without reaching an agreement. Here's Al Jazeera's Hamda Salhout.

On Saturday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his top political allies along with his security chiefs to receive a briefing from the Israeli negotiating team who returned from Doha after a week of negotiations with mediators. But the Israeli premier has long been against phase two, meaning an end to the war. The Israelis rather say that they agreed to the Witkow proposal

The U.S. envoy to the Middle East had proposed a 50-day extension to phase one, and in exchange, there would be half of the Israeli captives released from Gaza, as well as Palestinian prisoners released in exchange. But meanwhile, you have the family members of Israeli captives who are calling on the Israeli government to enter into phase two of this deal, because even if it means an end of the war, it would mean that all of the captives would be brought back to Israel.

The U.S. government is continuing its crackdown on Palestinians in the U.S. On Sunday, Tahar Herzallah, an activist with American Muslims for Palestine, spoke to Al Jazeera. We are in a time of danger, obviously, with what's happening with our brother Mahmoud Khalil, who is languishing in a detention center in Louisiana, as we await what the courts and the judge decide.

will decide upon his fate. And this is, of course, a very worrying thing for all of us who've been engaged in Palestine activism over the last two decades. Nonetheless,

The response from the entire Palestine movement and student activists and organizers around the country has been very strong. I think that people have been hitting the streets. People have been making it clear that they will not be intimidated. They will not allow the suppression and repression of Palestine speech to continue without opposition. And that's The Take for Sunday, March 16. Please join us again tomorrow.

This episode was produced and mixed by me, David Enders. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Alexandra Locke is the take's executive producer. And Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.